Ever since it was founded, the CAYC (Centro de Arte y Comunicación), helmed by the cultural promoter, artist, and businessman Jorge Glusberg, was intended as an interdisciplinary space where an experimental art movement could flourish. The establishment of collaborative networks connecting local and international artists and critics played an important role in this process. In addition to the exhibitions, a program of different activities exposed attendees to the latest in scientific thinking. According to Glusberg, the coordination between theoretical thinking and artistic practice was an essential part of social change.
During the military dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Onganía, the CAYC became a cultural home for the Fundación de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (Foundation for Interdisciplinary Research), a space that welcomed a group of dissident professors from the Facultad de Arquitectura y Ciencias Exactas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires after the military takeover of the university in what came to be known as “La Noche de los Bastones Largos” in June 1966.
In its early years the center organized a variety of activities with intellectuals that contributed to the circulation of ideas from different disciplines (analytical philosophy, mathematical logic, epistemological problems, psychology, semiotics, and linguistics), which had been excluded from official circles after the military takeover of universities in 1966. The CAYC partnered with the Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Filosófico (SADAF, the Argentine Society of Philosophical Analysis)—one of the civil associations that welcomed university professors who resigned their positions after the coup against universities, mentioned above—to organize groups and events to discuss and circulate philosophical analysis. The SADAF’s original members were Eugenio Bulygin, Genaro Carrió, Alberto Coffa, Juan Carlos D’Alessio, Rolando García, Ricardo Gómez, Gregorio Klimovsky, Raúl Orayen, Eduardo Rabossi, Félix Schuster, and Thomas Moro Simpson.
Creators and intellectuals with careers in literature, social psychology, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and regionally focused sociology also took part in the activities offered by the EAE. This newsletter announced the program of activities scheduled for April through June 1975 at the CAYC’s Escuela de Altos Estudios (EAE, the School of Advanced Studies). The list of seminars shows the center’s interest in coordinating theoretical thinking and the practice of art, not only in the activities organized by the EAE but also in the work produced by artists associated with the school.
